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Women and Death 2: Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination Since 1500

Women and Death 2: Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination Since 1500

Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen
Brandt, Bettina
Colvin, Sarah

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Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Book 40

Literary CriticismGerman HistoryWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 157113400X
ISBN13: 9781571134004
Publisher: Camden House Inc
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Explores both constants and changes in representations of warlike and violent women in German culture over the past six centuries.

Warlike women are a recurring phenomenon in German literature and culture since 1500. Amazons, terrorists, warrior women -- this volume of essays by leading scholars from the UK and Germany analyzes ideas and portrayals of these figures in the visual arts, society, media, and scholarship, always against the backdrop of Germany's development as a culture and as a nation. The contributors look for patterns in the historical portrayal of warlike women, askingthe questions: What cultural signals are sent when women are shown occupying men's spaces by dressing as warriors or in men's clothing? What can legitimize the woman who bears arms? From what is the erotic potential of images linking women and violence derived? Have recent feminist thought and political developments changed representations of warlike women?

Contributors: Bettina Brandt, Sarah Colvin, Mererid Puw Davies, Peter Davies, ChristineEifler, Ute Frevert, Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius, Ritchie Robertson, Daria Santini, Ruth Seifert, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly.

Sarah Colvin is Eudo C. Mason Chair of German at the University of Edinburgh. Helen Watanabe-O'Kellyis Professor of German at Oxford University and Fellow and Tutor of Exeter College, Oxford.

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